A teenager who died following a crash in Cyprus gave a statement to police on his death bed, it emerged yesterday.

Four British men - Julian Harrington, 38, James Goodwin, 21, Michael Binnington, 21, and Luke Atkinson, 22 - are being held in a local jail after being arrested in connection with the crash.

Cypriot teenager Christos Papiris, who lived outside the capital Nicosia, spoke to officers before he died in Famagusta hospital, local police said. The 17-year-old suffered internal injuries after his motorcycle was in a crash with a rented car on the road between Protaras and Ayia Napa at 3.50am on Friday.